Re: [css-d] Is there a simple way to center in an iframe?

2009-11-12 Thread Brian Cummiskey
I guess the question here is how are you invoking the iframe change? if your using javascript to do that, you can probably add a style set via JS at the same time. __ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org]

[css-d] google Chrome browser

2008-09-02 Thread Brian Cummiskey
Chrome is set to drop for download sometime today: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/09/fresh-take-on-browser.html Anyone get a pre-release copy to do some testing? Any scary things we should be aware of? Thanks __

[css-d] floated anchors not wrapping/returning

2008-05-22 Thread Brian Cummiskey
Hi guys, Having an IE7 problem. please see: http://imageupload.com/out.php/i120625_float.jpg Basically, ie7 in the screen shot is not wrapping/CR to the next line like it does in firefox, thus having all the extra of the last block hang down at the end of the 'row'. the code block i'm using:

[css-d] colon in class name?

2008-04-26 Thread Brian Cummiskey
In looking at the hosted YUI, I came across textarea name=code class=HTML:nogutter:nocontrols cols=60 rows=1 on http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/articles/hosting/ cane someone explain the colons in the class? Thanks __

[css-d] a:active giving horiz scroll bar

2008-04-18 Thread Brian Cummiskey
Hi guys, FireFox problem. I have a floated list with the width set on ul li in ul li a, when active, i get a horizontal scrollbar of about 1-2px in firefox. I have no rules for :active. My anchor is just ul li a and ul li a:hover (both which don't produce the scroll) Is there something

[css-d] 2 col linked, single list element

2008-04-14 Thread Brian Cummiskey
Hi Guys, I need a list with 2 columns, all as one anchor, ala: http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=rby7f6s=3 I'm currently using lia href=span class=catsection 1/spanspan class=prodsection 2/span/a/li On hover, the whole background needs to swap the full width of the li (the list is

Re: [css-d] Oldest Browser Currently Testing for

2008-03-05 Thread Brian Cummiskey
I test for SIMILAR results on Firefox2, ie6, and ie7 on pc along with safari on the mac and Konq on linux I test for 'acceptible' for ie5.5 on pc, opera, and ie5.5 on the mac __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [css-d] A Div Quesiton

2008-02-15 Thread Brian Cummiskey
Christopher wrote: body div class=maingraphic/div /body /html When I move that div into the body it already is in the body, so i'm not sure what you're getting at here the div and the style just disappar. So to nest another div inside of that div just put it under that div

Re: [css-d] A Div Quesiton

2008-02-15 Thread Brian Cummiskey
Christopher wrote: If you have a a few div on page and a style sheet within a div, is the style sheet locked in that div or is it free to be repositioned anywhere even outside the div ? Chris, you SHOULDN'T have a style sheet in the body area of a document. It should be in the head.

Re: [css-d] hand coders vs wsywig coders...I had no idea

2008-01-25 Thread Brian Cummiskey
When I interview, asking what editor they use is one of the first questions I ask, and frankly, the same reaction is given if someone says Dreamweaver. I won't hire them. Even if they do use the code view, it means my company has to buy another adobe license for them at $ dollars instead

[css-d] decimals in widths?

2007-11-02 Thread Brian Cummiskey
Hi all, I have a dynamic list of items that displays inline in floated div's. I was doing some math on how many, and out of the available space, to split it evenly (as they are aligned center) ie, wrapper is 500px 2 items each gets 250px of space/margin width. i have an odd shape on this one

[css-d] images off / css on

2007-10-23 Thread Brian Cummiskey
Hi All, Perhaps this is more an accessibility questions than CSS, but the fix lies in the css i believe. Scenario: div dark blue background image gradient. h1 on top of it, styled white to be readable/h1 /div Now, when images are off, the text is white on white (on an assumed not

Re: [css-d] images off / css on

2007-10-23 Thread Brian Cummiskey
Jukka K. Korpela wrote: h1 { color: #006; background: #fff; } If you only set background for the enclosing div, then most of the time the h1 will have a transparent background and things will be OK. But why take chances when there is nothing to be won? Some day the page might be viewed in

[css-d] reserved words as properties?

2007-10-17 Thread Brian Cummiskey
Hi all, Just ran into this while working on an automotive tab. The grafic for it is called auto.gif #topnav a#tn_auto { background: url(/grafx/auto.gif) no-repeat 0 0; } My editor highlighted auto.gif in the background url, due to auto being a reserved word. It seems to work in my

Re: [css-d] reserved words as properties?

2007-10-17 Thread Brian Cummiskey
Nick Fitzsimons wrote: It's a bug in your editor; even IE doesn't have _that_ degree of a problem parsing CSS. Thanks Nick. I'm using (a surely out-dated version of) Edit Plus. __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[css-d] negative margins and Ie6

2007-09-26 Thread Brian Cummiskey
Hi guys, Working on a simple column which has a round right corner on the div (via background image.) the rest of the right had side has a single px border going up it. In order to get the border not to display, i applied a -1px margin right to the element that has the rounded element. this

Re: [css-d] Menu functionality and IE6 bug

2007-09-17 Thread Brian Cummiskey
Rafael wrote: b) IE 6 ignores the mouse-over once you move out of the link (as if the LI didn't count at all). I've had this problem before, but I can't recall how did I sort it out, I'll let you know if I recall how. setting the a to display: block; should clear that up.

[css-d] clearing non-floats

2007-09-04 Thread Brian Cummiskey
Hi guys, i'm trying to get rid of a br / I have to split up some footer text. I'm currently using: div id=footer_nav h2a href=#Link1 /a/h2 h2a href=#Link2 /a/h2 h2 class=lasta href=#Link3 /a/h2 br / h2a href=#Link4 /a/h2

Re: [css-d] validation errors

2007-08-07 Thread Brian Cummiskey
Terri Chicko wrote: Hi all OK, I'm working at restructuring Terri, your doc type is XHTML strict. your page is riddled with code that is NOT XHTML strict valid (and some that are not even Transitional valid) bgcolor font etc USE css classes or IDs, or gloabl elements. ie, instead of body

Re: [css-d] CSS validation warnings question

2007-08-07 Thread Brian Cummiskey
Terri Chicko wrote: It says my CSS validates but I have 22 warnings all similar. Sorry, I know these are dumb... but I don't understand. Warning Same colors for color and background-color in two contexts #headline and h1 Thanks Terri This means you have a background color that

[css-d] text-transform

2007-07-30 Thread Brian Cummiskey
Hi Guys, I have a select drop down filled with color codes such as PINK/BLUE etc... I want them to show up as Pink/Blue in the database that fills this list, they are stored in all CAPS, and are pulled directly with no formatting. I applied the text-transform of capitalize to the element,

Re: [css-d] text-transform

2007-07-30 Thread Brian Cummiskey
SosCpdGMail wrote: Hello Brian Sorry, but I can't see if your question is how to retrieve uppercase text from database or apply pink/blue color to your selects. Rafael, Thanks, but I know how to do this and all the DB query behind it. :) The issue is that the functions I'm using to generate

Re: [css-d] image + text next to it off baseline

2007-07-27 Thread Brian Cummiskey
David Hucklesby wrote: It sounds like the image is sitting on the baseline of the text -- in other words, it has a space underneath where the text descenders lie (tails of g, j, p, etc.) That's what i thought at first too but there's no tail text. its always X Items. (where X is a

[css-d] image + text next to it off baseline

2007-07-26 Thread Brian Cummiskey
Hi all, I have a simple problem with lining up text next to an image p id=carta href=/cart.aspimg src=/grafx/shoping_cart.jpg alt=View Cart /0 Items/a/p The image is a shopping cart icon. #cart holds text formating only, no positioning or floats, etc. the text gets pushed a little lower

Re: [css-d] Styling an RSS feed { #rss: bother; }

2007-07-22 Thread Brian Cummiskey
Christopher Blake wrote: If you can't see what the names of the IDs and CLASSs are from the HTML (because the javascript is all that you can see) how the hell are you supposed to style them Chris, i think the real issue here is how you are aggregating the feed itself. You should

Re: [css-d] Normal bulleted lists... with smaller bullets

2007-07-09 Thread Brian Cummiskey
Jukka K. Korpela wrote: On Mon, 9 Jul 2007, Complex wrote: There's at least one thing I don't know how to do well with bulleted lists. I would like to make normal unordered (bulleted) lists using smaller bullets. You're not the only one with the problem, and I'm afraid there's no

Re: [css-d] Design for IE6 or IE7?

2007-06-22 Thread Brian Cummiskey
KS wrote: Hi, Is there a consensus whether one should design, using css, for IE6 or IE7? I looked up some latest stats and more people are still using IE6. I just wanted people's thoughts on this. Why not Both? It's not hard to pull off. There's plenty of tricks and fixes for both

Re: [css-d] Any consensus on reset css?

2007-06-20 Thread Brian Cummiskey
On Wed, 20 Jun 2007 23:04:55 -0400, Scott Glasgow wrote: There seems to be a good deal of contention, or at least spirited discussion, on the value or advisability of using reset stylesheets (http://www.webmasterworld.com/css/3329010.htm). I'm just getting back into this and I'm curious if

[css-d] Mac site check please

2007-06-10 Thread Brian Cummiskey
Can someone on a mac please check this out for me? *http://tinyurl.com/2bnwgu TIA * __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7 information -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=IE7

Re: [css-d] Mac site check please

2007-06-10 Thread Brian Cummiskey
Richard Grevers wrote: um, your image replacement appears to be broken in Opera (checked in 9.21 on Windows) - I see both the logo and the H1 text overlapping. Richard, I have changed the technique. Can you visit again and let me know if it is resolved now? http://tinyurl.com/2bnwgu

[css-d] floats in floats

2007-05-10 Thread Brian Cummiskey
Hi All, Having a little problem with clearing multiple nested floats. Take the following (simplified) markup: div id=wrapper div id=itemmeta div id=itemimage img src= /

[css-d] right-nav out on IE6

2007-04-17 Thread Brian Cummiskey
Hi All, I'm working off a 3-col template from the wiki, where content is first in the source. The example was given in 100% fluid. I've altered it some to suit my needs, but for the most part, its the same concept. My design i'm working with is fixed-width. I added an outer wrapper with

Re: [css-d] right-nav out on IE6

2007-04-17 Thread Brian Cummiskey
Gunlaug Sørtun wrote: Kill that 'margin-doubling on floats' bug, by adding... #rsidebar {display: inline;} ...and IE6 will behave as intended. regards Georg Thanks Georg, I put the code in, but unfortunately i don't have ie6 at my disposal here at the office. Will have to

Re: [css-d] Rollovers (hovers) not working in Firefox

2007-03-27 Thread Brian Cummiskey
Kathi Cushman wrote: http://www.igryphon.com/microtia_final/age-to-begin.html Kathi, you do have some markup errors: http://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.igryphon.com%2Fmicrotia_final%2Fage-to-begin.html Those may be contributing to it. On a side note, the horizontal

[css-d] ie6 float around p issue

2007-03-16 Thread Brian Cummiskey
Hi guys, have a small problem in ie6 with a paragraph tag clearing a float when it shouldn't. FF and IE7 display it properly. http://tinyurl.com/26yb7t ** In ie6, the text block starts under the ad block on the right instead of next to it, and later wrapping under it. Any ideas?

Re: [css-d] best way to display multiple columns with odd heights

2007-02-19 Thread Brian Cummiskey
~davidLaakso wrote: See Any Column Longest in the CSS-D wiki: http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=AnyColumnLongest Perhaps I wasn't clear. :) The issue is not with the right column at all. It's with the items inside the left main column. If you're familiar with Shaun Immans' Mint product,

[css-d] best way to display multiple columns with odd heights

2007-02-18 Thread Brian Cummiskey
Hi All, I'm working on an attributes manager (sizes, colors, etc) for a product catalog's admin section. I'm trying to come up with a good way to display these, as the height of the element can be anywhere from 1 item to 1000 items (or even more is possible -- its unlimited) For example,

[css-d] IE6 pop-out menu issues

2006-12-08 Thread Brian Cummiskey
Hi all, I'm working on a new nav system for my vbulletin site, and I want to have a sub nav pop out on the bottom 2 elements. it works perfect in ie7 and firefox 2, but the popouts -push- the elements down when the sub-ul menu is displayed in IE6. I am using the csshover.htc for ie6, and i'm

[css-d] mock-up help

2006-10-17 Thread Brian Cummiskey
Hi guys, I've been given a template to build a contact/poll form with. Without giving out too much info, I made a quick mock up on my personal file server: http://hondaswap.com/files/template.jpg The curvy line will be even (i just can't draw), so I'm probably going to take the top 100px or

Re: [css-d] mock-up help

2006-10-17 Thread Brian Cummiskey
Gunlaug Sørtun wrote: http://www.gunlaug.no/contents/wd_chaos_25.html Ahhh relative (percent) absolute positioning. Why didn't i think of that? That's a perfect example, Gunlaug. Thanks! I'll get crackin' on that and let you know what I come up with.

Re: [css-d] table row highlighting?

2006-09-25 Thread Brian Cummiskey
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: anyway to do this in CSS for IE? In IE the table row is not highlighted... IE doesn't support any pseudo classes, except :hover on the a element. There are work around's, such as csshover.htc, which is a JS library. http://www.xs4all.nl/~peterned/csshover.html

Re: [css-d] Question re: rule syntax

2006-09-25 Thread Brian Cummiskey
Dean Champeau wrote: ul#navmenu this will effect this: ul id=navmenu /ul Note that a general #navmenu {} style set will work the exact same. This just specifies it further to be that of a list containing this ID. #navmenu ul This will effect this: div id=navmenu ul /ul /div (or

Re: [css-d] duplicate id's

2006-09-23 Thread Brian Cummiskey
Mark J. Reed wrote: The rule requiring IDs to be unique has nothing to do with CSS: it's part of the XHTML specification. Thanks Mark, that answers my question. :) __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[css-d] duplicate id's

2006-09-22 Thread Brian Cummiskey
I know the rule is 1 ID per page. But this got me thinking... Take for example, this markup: ul id=foo li id=firstdfdsad/li li id=lastfsdfsd/li /ul ul id=bar li id=firstdfdsad/li li id=lastfsdfsd/li /ul If I only have styles addressed as ul#foo li#first and ul#bar li#last

Re: [css-d] Why doesn't this padding-left work?

2006-09-21 Thread Brian Cummiskey
!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC -//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN SNIP / DIV id=content H2 style=padding-left: 5%CSS Information/H2 Lorem ipsum, etc. /DIV xhtml tags cannot be uppercase. DIV should be div H2 should be h2 Some browsers may

[css-d] alternative to inline-block

2006-09-07 Thread Brian Cummiskey
I have a menu that is floated, and the only way it renders correctly in ie6 is if it gets a hasLayout attribute. I added display: inline-block to the container div, and all is well. except, it doesn't validate. You and I both know it does, but the validator says otherwise, and

Re: [css-d] alternative to inline-block

2006-09-07 Thread Brian Cummiskey
Philippe Wittenbergh wrote: If that menu is floated, it already 'hasLayout' [1] I suspect something else is going on with it. Do you have a sample url ? No sample URL to post right now, but Here's the basic markup and css: div id=wrapper mast head/// div id=navbar ul

Re: [css-d] alternative to inline-block

2006-09-07 Thread Brian Cummiskey
Aha. #navbar is not floated. And yes it better has 'layout' in order to contain and constrain the floated ul inside of it. options as 'layout triggers': width, height, zoom:1, Zoom:1 is probably the best option: hidden from other browsers, and will work for both IE 6 and 7. If you

Re: [css-d] a tabless bulletin board?

2006-09-05 Thread Brian Cummiskey
cappellano wrote: is there any bulletin board (entirely) tabless? If there are, they aren't any good or popular. I am currently at the early stages of a huge project, of converting vBulletin to standards based, table-less (or maybe less-tables depending on how it turns out...) layout.

[css-d] no class, no id, no element?

2006-08-22 Thread Brian Cummiskey
I'm looking through a vBulletin install, and I'm noticing some weird things: a:link, body_alink { * color : #9c; } what is body_alink here? It's not a class, nor an ID, nor an html element, and it's separated by a comma, so it's not playing parent/child. It validates, so it must be

[css-d] bunch of ie problems

2006-08-03 Thread Brian Cummiskey
I'm nearing completion on a client website, but i keep running into numerous IE6 problems. The site runs and looks perfect in firefox. It is build off a highly modded wordpress install. Rounded corners: after some scrolling where the top portion of the page is out of view, sometimes IE will

Re: [css-d] bunch of ie problems

2006-08-03 Thread Brian Cummiskey
Gunlaug Sørtun wrote: #page {position: relative;} regards Georg Thanks Georg. This seems to have helped out greatly. Its not perfect, but its much better than it was. __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [css-d] bunch of ie problems

2006-08-03 Thread Brian Cummiskey
Hi Tom, * Line: 569 Context : #catnav Invalid number : display inline-block is not a display value : inline-block * Line: 576 Context : #pagenav These were the hacks Holly suggested to fix the HASLAYOUT IE bug on the nav bars. Invalid number : display

Re: [css-d] adding ALT text to a CSS - background-image

2006-07-17 Thread Brian Cummiskey
On 7/17/06, Maciejewski, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible to add ALT text to this? No (at least not directly) If the image is presentational, it should be in the background with no alt if the image is content, it should be in img tags, and properly alt'ed.

Re: [css-d] Best CSS Online Validator

2006-07-13 Thread Brian Cummiskey
On 7/13/06, Marje Cannon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What's the best free online validator. The one at W3C throws up errors that are not errors. the w3 one is THE validator. I continually get an error for specifying line-height this way: line-height: 2; and it keeps telling me that color:

Re: [css-d] IE draws a random line through nav links issue

2006-07-13 Thread Brian Cummiskey
On 7/12/06, Brian Cummiskey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Issue 1: When I met wth my client at their place the other day, I noticed for the first time a weird IE quirk. When scrolling occurs, sometimes the nav bars when you scroll back up will have a random 1px white line through them. I DON'T

Re: [css-d] IE draws a random line through nav links issue

2006-07-12 Thread Brian Cummiskey
Rahul Gonsalves wrote: First off, nice design. Thanks. It's bare-bones right now. I have some images in the works to spice it up some, but that's the framework/main color theme. I don't see either of your problems, running IE6.0.2900.2182 (SP2). I'm able to click on the entire RSS link +

[css-d] IE draws a random line through nav links issue

2006-07-11 Thread Brian Cummiskey
Hi all, I'm working on a client website using wordpress as the back end. I have highly customized the skin to make it less blog-like and more CMS-like, as the application suits. I modified the menu system so that Categories are listed on the top nav, and Pages are listed on the secondary

[css-d] Weird attribute

2006-07-05 Thread Brian Cummiskey
I just stumbled upon this in some (mostly table-based) code i'm updating, and I've never seen anything like it before. table, td { font:normal 11px Arial,sans-serif; font:normal 8px standard 07_55,Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif; color: #000; } What does 07_55 and standard do, and does it

Re: [css-d] Iframe or div?

2006-06-09 Thread Brian Cummiskey
Don Miller wrote: Is there a way to make a .div behave like an iframe? I want the div to be a certain width and height and keep that size regardless of the content but would like a vertical scroll bar to appear if the content is longer than the div. div id=scroll content /div #scroll {

Re: [css-d] 3 column fluid, header and footer - the best layout

2006-06-09 Thread Brian Cummiskey
Trevor Boult wrote: You will see my container div in IE extends all the way over to the left when floatright is applied to images in the container. Its all ok in Firefox. I'm not seeing this in IE6. I see the last image on the bottom break out of the container though. To fix that, you

[css-d] Ie extra padding

2006-04-21 Thread Brian Cummiskey
Hi Guys, I'm in the process of un-table-izing a new vBulletin installation. (It's amazing how bad some of this mark up really is for enterprise-level software... ) Anyway, I'm making a nice new navigation menu all css instead of the useless table cells. Can someone take a look? IE6 seems to

Re: [css-d] Ie extra padding [solved]

2006-04-21 Thread Brian Cummiskey
Shawn Lawler wrote: /* This should do it ;) */ #navbar ul, #subnav ul {margin:5px;} Of corse... the only element I didn't target :P Thanks Shawn, case closed :) Have a good weekend everyone. __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[css-d] wordpress OEM footer

2006-03-28 Thread Brian Cummiskey
I've noticed that my wordpress blog footer sidebar images align or don't align, depending on the width of the view port. example: http://www.skeymedia.com/ Resize and watch the footer. This was tested in firefox 1.5 Any ideas?

[css-d] liquid layout w/ bg image columns

2006-03-14 Thread Brian Cummiskey
Hi Guys, I'm attempting to build this: - | | - |+ +| |+ +| |+ +| - | |

Re: [css-d] liquid layout w/ bg image columns

2006-03-14 Thread Brian Cummiskey
Christian Montoya wrote: As long as the floated columns are contained (add a clearing element before closing the first container), these two background images will extend the full height. Thanks chris- that clear is what i needed. :) All set.

Re: [css-d] Font problem body tag

2006-02-22 Thread Brian Cummiskey
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: font:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; try, font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7b2 testing hub --

Re: [css-d] Example of multi-page design needed

2006-01-18 Thread Brian Cummiskey
Keith Kaiser wrote: I'm redesigning a very long page that requires a lot of scrolling. I'd like to replace it with a 100% CSS design that has a banner across the top and a menu along the left side. Each item selected simply appears in the space to it's right. Does any one know of a good

Re: [css-d] Replicating the 'Million Dollar Webpage' in CSS

2006-01-10 Thread Brian Cummiskey
nouhad wrote: Can anyone help me code this layout in CSS ? I am somewhat new to CSS but I do know how to code in it. Help would be much appreciated. There's a couple ways. 1, is to float each ad with a container wrapper div, but if you have different ad heights, it might become a mess

[css-d] Web Developer Extension 1.0 Released

2006-01-03 Thread Brian Cummiskey
Just passing this on from another list that I (and probably some of you) are on. New version of the firefox WD toolbar is out. __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ --

Re: [css-d] Web Developer Extension 1.0 Released

2006-01-03 Thread Brian Cummiskey
Brian Cummiskey wrote: Just passing this on from another list that I (and probably some of you) are on. New version of the firefox WD toolbar is out. Sending the link would probably help: http://chrispederick.com/work/webdeveloper/ Enjoy

Re: [css-d] Font-size keywords

2005-12-23 Thread Brian Cummiskey
Jonathan Carter wrote: interested to know their pros and cons. This is all covered in the wiki: http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=UsingFontSize __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [css-d] Myspace

2005-12-22 Thread Brian Cummiskey
D Ross wrote: This guy used to have an amazing myspace page but it appears they deleted it for some reason... They deleted it because he removed the ads from display. That's the big thing in myspace terms of service. You can do anything you want to your design, but you cannot cover up the

Re: [css-d] Myspace

2005-12-21 Thread Brian Cummiskey
Scott Haneda wrote: Ok, I have been wondering this for some time, and as much as I dislike the myspace generation, I need to know some technical aspects. Hey wait, that's me :P I have seen maybe 2 pages where someone has done a really nice job laying out the page. In the code, I see this:

Re: [css-d] database tabular data

2005-12-07 Thread Brian Cummiskey
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do I layout css div's to display multi columm tablular data from a database. Up until now I've used tables within an asp loop, with tr/tr or each row and td/td for each column. Ideas for a css layout would really help. Tabluar data is SUPPOSED to go in a

Re: [css-d] absolute positioning??

2005-12-07 Thread Brian Cummiskey
Greg Morphis wrote: here's a screen shot of what I'm trying to dupe.. Thanks! http://home.alltel.net/omen/schedule_example.jpg I may not speak for everyone here, but I would use a table for this. Every half-hour is a data cell, and use the proper colspan's as necessary. Can it be done in

Re: [css-d] absolute positioning??

2005-12-07 Thread Brian Cummiskey
Greg Morphis wrote: okay so using the tables would it allow for multiple enteries on the same day? Thanks! This doesn't seem like a coding problem but rather a business logic problem?? For example, how can someone be on vacation, and in a meeting at the same time?

Re: [css-d] absolute positioning??

2005-12-07 Thread Brian Cummiskey
Greg Morphis wrote: Oh and how would I add the words to it? like Work or Vacation using a table? table tr td colspan=2 class=onvacationVacation/td /tr /table __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[css-d] float wrap?

2005-12-06 Thread Brian Cummiskey
Morning all (or whatever time of day it is :P ) I'm trying to float a google ad (large rectangle) inside a div and have the text from another one wrap around it. here's a basic diagram: |---| | mast head

Re: [css-d] float wrap?

2005-12-06 Thread Brian Cummiskey
Squibb, Brian wrote: Do you mean a nested float? Like: #main_left { margin-right: 340px; } #MAIN_LEFT #main_right { float: right; width: 336px; height: 400px;

Re: [css-d] site check - flash transparency check with windows

2005-11-23 Thread Brian Cummiskey
rashantha de silva wrote: every thing looks good on safari, but i need confirmation from pc users. in virtual pc on my powerbook the flash edges seemed to be jagged. windows users can you please check this on a desktop as well as laptops. I'm not sure which i'm supposed to be seeing... but

Re: [css-d] Box Model Tutorial

2005-11-22 Thread Brian Cummiskey
Miki Kersgard wrote: I'm having a moment of brain lapse here. In the last day or two someone on this list or my Dreamweaver list posted a nice bunch of links for box model tutorials. http://www.tantek.com/CSS/Examples/boxmodelhack.html

[css-d] [OT] Re: Quoted Pound Sign

2005-11-22 Thread Brian Cummiskey
Stephen Kortz wrote: Hi, In the following html statement: lia href=#Home/a/li. Could anyone please explain to me why the pound sign is placed in quotes. I'm a bit baffled about this one. This has nothing to do with CSS. W3 spec [0] suggests links be wrapped in quotes. # is a book mark,

Re: [css-d] Question from a beginner

2005-11-15 Thread Brian Cummiskey
Stephen Kortz wrote: Hi all, Is there a preferred way to get a project started. What I mean to say is, do you type of all the HTML first, mark it up and then write the CSS or do you do it piece meal? I am just trying to figure out a logical process which to go by so that I can make my work

[css-d] using legend on non-form elements

2005-11-11 Thread Brian Cummiskey
This is probably a stupid question... (but you know what they say :p ) I have two groups on my sidebar: -1, a css-grouped form for user login within a fieldset and legend. -2, a stats table (tabular data) My idea, is to get both these elements to appear the same, at least as far as the legend

Re: [css-d] using CSS to present data in a grid/table format

2005-10-06 Thread Brian Cummiskey
Gale Stafford wrote: Hello folks! Newbie list member here! I have some information that I want to present in a grid / table format (six columns by nine rows) but I'd like to use CSS to do it. Is this realistic? Or is it more practical to just use tables? If it's tabular data, use a table.

[css-d] textarea and printing

2005-09-23 Thread Brian Cummiskey
Hi all. Happy Friday :) I'm working on setting up a print version for an online QA evaluation form for my company. The problem i'm having, is that if the entered text is bigger than what the textarea can hold in physical shape/size, it obviously clips the text and is not printed. Whatever

Re: [css-d] textarea and printing

2005-09-23 Thread Brian Cummiskey
Josue Martinez wrote: Brian, have you used a different style sheet specifically for printed material (print/css)? yes. i have a main.css for media = screen and a print.css for media=print On 9/23/05, Julie Angarone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have done this - in the css for Print media I

Re: [css-d] maxlength attribute in css

2005-09-21 Thread Brian Cummiskey
Christian Heilmann wrote: What is wrong with input maxlengh=20 ... ? A maximum length is not a visual attribute, it is a data restriction, and therefore not the job of css. there's nothing wrong with it, but it won't validate xhtml strict... sorry, i don't have a solution either.

Re: [css-d] form field grey out.

2005-09-07 Thread Brian Cummiskey
Dan McCullough wrote: Not sure I described that correctly, but I was looking for an idea on how to have like a text box with some data in, but make it uneditable and look like its greyed out. input type=text readonly=readonly name=thefield / firefox will make this grey by default. for the

[css-d] quick site check (aj's)

2005-09-06 Thread Brian Cummiskey
I'm working on a site w/ a custom shopping cart for a friend's car audio store. I have a basic layout setup at this point, and before i go any further, i'd like to see how it degrades across the list. Everything i've tested seems to work fine, but ya never know. If you have 10 secs, please

Re: [css-d] How to get rid of gaps

2005-09-01 Thread Brian Cummiskey
Peter Speltz wrote: If anyone cares to reply: Is using id just a matter of protection for the developer by limiting them or is there more to it than that? NEVER limit the developer. there is a time for a class and a time for an id. such as: .menuitem { color: #fff; } #menuholder { border:

Re: [css-d] Hacks, to use them, or not

2005-08-23 Thread Brian Cummiskey
Al Lemieux wrote: Deb, I'm in total agreement with Haoshiro. Hacks are just that - hacks. Its like using a screwdriver to hammer in a nail. A lot of them didn't work for me either. to the OP, most hacks are documented in the wiki- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=CssHack whether you

Re: [OT] [css-d] cutting edge layouts

2005-08-18 Thread Brian Cummiskey
DOUGLAS WINTERS wrote: Again looking at tons of sites, it seems the standard layout is to have left navi links with a splashy photo header and content all under the header. Is this the cutting edge design? Most web sites are following this kind of formula it seems. Is this what some

[css-d] floating w/ 3 col help

2005-07-20 Thread Brian Cummiskey
i'm trying to prove a friend wrong that his table/css design is not the way to do it... so I took it upon myself to show him how its done with pure css, and now i'm stuck.. heh. I've got it all set up, minus the left and right side bars on the middle row. http://www.skeymedia.com/tonyx/

Re: [css-d] limiting collumns

2005-07-11 Thread Brian Cummiskey
jeremy wrote: Is there a way that you can write the css to start displayig in a new collumn after 100 li entries? sounds like this is a better job for php than css. every 100, start a new dynamic Div ? for $x=0; $x100; x++ { echo ? div id=divA

Re: [css-d] [OT] javascript drop down menus lingering too long

2005-06-14 Thread Brian Cummiskey
Ellen Dunne wrote: hello -- I am using the javascript function mmLoadMenus(); to create drop down menus for a navigation bar, and the menus are lingering too long after mouseout. This is a javascript issue, not a css one. Please address js and other non-css issues to a list that discusses

Re: [css-d] how would I set the font size in CSS for something like this?

2005-05-24 Thread Brian Cummiskey
Bruce Gilbert wrote: ul li form action= onSubmit=return jumpMenu(this.Forms) select name=Forms title= option class=selectionCommunity Education.../option option value=/option /select /li /ul I thought it

Re: [OT] [css-d] parse error

2005-05-18 Thread Brian Cummiskey
Judy Benedict wrote: Does anyone have a clue about why I am getting a parse error on this page? http://www.addison-homes.com/error.php It appears to work fine is if I put this on top: ?php echo ?xml version=\1.0\ encoding=\iso-8859-1\?.; ? instead of: ?xml version=1.0 encoding=iso-8859-1? This is